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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1935
Page
14
Logan reports Jack Homman four year old son of Mr and Mrs A F Homman of Pleasantville fell forty feet from edge of Old Man s Cave while with Boy Scout Troop 19 at Tock House. He was taken to Cherrington Hospital with a fractured right wrist bruises concussion and possible facial injuries.
Catherine Mundy, nine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mundy of Marion Township, was bitten on the foot by a copperhead while playing in the yard Monday. Attending physicians said she would recover if no internal injuries appear. Mrs Hamman notified and rushed to Logan that afternoon.
Veterinarians under Dr Bashore conduct tuberculin tests in Hocking County with 2800 cattle already tested by Thursday. Testing in Fallsia and Salt Creek Townships to finish soon and Perry Township to follow, with four men performing the tests.
Bridgettes enjoyed a picnic supper on Miss Manon Powers residence lawn with Madge Wright Elizabeth Stoughton Catherine Stoughton Esther Stoughton and others plus guests Mia Guy French Helen Rush Marjorie Brandt Ruth Myers Rheinscheld family reunion planned near Union Furnace at the Rheinacheld home Franklin Kerr Guild hosts at Brandt home Monday night Sister Susies Club met at Ash Cave cottage with husbands guests Dr A O Keich Frank Brown Bernard Geiger Edward Kemper W P Braddock Clete Schull Barbara Ann Flanigan Needlework at Priscilla Club Emma Tucker Margaret Hartman Charlotte Rochester Ann Wellman visiting Marion Indiana with Mrs T B Evans Mrs Ralph Roberts sewing club hosts guests L A Ross Mary Bollinger.
Logan officers arrest Jack Glick and Clarence Beery with Deputy Nellis Smith. Glick admits passing counterfeit checks in Nelsonville signed S. B. Ruble. Beery denies issuing any checks. both men moved to Nelsonville for questioning. A car in Glicks possession is being checked for theft. Mt. Pleasant and Perry County request Glick’s custody.
Green District Board reopened Graham School after a petition. A new petition seeks another reopening, with doubt raised by the county superintendent about rescinding the decision. In Logan J W Perkins was arrested for intoxication by deputy sheriffs Wednesday night.
Murray City electors will vote in November on a proposed special three mill levy for operating expenses, outside the ten mill limitation. The resolution was adopted by the council and filed with the county election board, covering five years.
Rev W N Shank returns from the west to lead the Methodist Episcopal Church service at 10 30 a m with the sermon The Erring Brother There are no evening services A United Brethren choir will sing Calvary at the morning service under Richard McCutchan Rev John A Toy speaks on Attitudes and later his topic Spiritual Deformity Rev F H Landgrabe preaches at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m evangelical services Through August St Paul Episcopal Church keeps 8 30 a m morning worship with 10 o clock services starting September Rev C M Lever announces the changes
Election Board final tallies largely match unofficial counts. Virginia Belt’s auditor lead shrank from 24 to 19 votes while Harold Larimer held a five vote council-at-large edge for Republicans. Total 1,405 ballots with 831 Democrats and 574 Republicans. no Democrat candidate reached president of council or solicitor. 53 write in ballots for Denzil Weltner but 67 were needed to qualify.
Relatives reported on Wednesday that C. H Bell, an oil producer from Logan, was injured in an automobile accident near Mt. Pleasant Michigan. He was riding with a Mt. Pleasant man when their car struck a road scraper. Bell suffered cuts and bruises with no fractured bones.
Ruble of this city was called to Cleveland Thursday by the death of his son Ray Ruble a former local resident who dropped dead there that morning. Details were not disclosed. Besides his father Ruble leaves a wife and son and one sister. Davis is superintendent of the Murray City schools. Clyde Anthony and Bob Bowlby of this city met on the street Thursday night for a chat describing a height difference of six feet eight inches and four feet nine and one half inches. Annual Howdy shell family reunion set for Ebenezer Church near Maxville with speakers Grover Strawn A P Cohagen and James Larimer. The Mid West Tobacco Company Cincinnati sued in Federal District Court for order restraining collection of tobacco processing taxes under the AAA. Since floodlights on the Washington Monument were installed, nearly a thousand birds have died by flying into the shaft.
John Dougherty, longtime Haydenville employee and first to install telephones for the Haydenville firm, retires as chief booker for the National Fireproofing Company. He began work at age 17 in Columbus with the Hayden company, later transitioning through name changes as the firm evolved over 62 years.
Logan State Master Walter Kirk will be the principal speaker at the Grange annual picnic to be held Saturday at Rockview Park one mile north of Rockbridge on Route 31. Arilie Brimmer says entertainment will be provided and a recreation committee led by Charles Blackstone Mrs Arlie Brimmer Mrs Pearl Sellers and John Bownes is in charge.
Logan reports Nelsonville and the Phi Sige postponing their Senior League contest Thursday night because of poor field conditions. If weather improves, Nelsonville will face the Carpenter Maytags at the same site this evening as fans note rising interest and a tight pennant race with Maytags leading by a slim margin.
The second annual St. Johns school reunion will be on Sunday September 1 at the Old Man's Cave shelterhouse. A basket dinner is planned with informal talks by former teachers. John Kern is president Rose is secretary Cliff Walker treasurer and in charge of arrangements.
An Elmira letter from Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Pope school reads of using All Bran to treat their daughter's lifelong constipation. They report no laxatives since starting daily two tablespoonfuls, noting All Bran adds bulk, vitamins, and iron, and is safer than patent medicines.
Miss Thelma Keyes and Miss Ley olet visited Columbus on Thursday guesting with Mr. and Mrs. H. Q. Wasson. Miss Elizabeth Rempel returned home after a Columbus visit. Leslie Boals of Woodville Pa was called to Logan for his mother Emma Boals illness. Henry Schull family of Owensboro Ky and Thomas J. Schull of Bremen were in Logan Thursday.
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